However, Tang Xiaomin couldn't be bothered to dwell on such things.
"Fine, speed limit it is, going slower is okay too."
In reality, she was feeling quite upset; she was naturally an impatient person.
Meanwhile, Ye Fengxing smiled as he received the photos his driver had just sent. He thought Tang Xiaomin looked quite pretty when she smiled.
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Tang Xiaomin drove the car into the garage, completely ignoring Tang Yiyi's ashen face.
Tang Yu looked at Tang Yiyi and questioned her, "Yiyi, why would you deliberately say that Xiaomin snatched your marriage? Who is Ye Fengxing? Whoever he deems his intended bride is his intended bride. How could Tang Xiaomin snatch your marriage?"
Tang Yiyi's eyes welled up with tears as she choked out, her voice trembling.
"Brother, if elder sister hadn't returned, then the marriage between the Tang family and the Ye family would have definitely been me. Didn't she snatch the marriage that belonged to me? From the day she returned, I knew this day would come. Forget it, I already took her life anyway, so I'll leave. Sob sob..." Su Dan Novel Net
Crying, Tang Yiyi walked onto the main road without looking back.
Tang Xiaomin emerged from the garage and happened to witness this scene.
She had experienced this kind of running away from home before, in both her past life and this one.
Now, it was Tang Yiyi's turn to taste that kind of bitterness.
Tang Xiaomin said coldly, "Good riddance, if you have the guts, don't come back. Your leaving makes the house peaceful."
"Xiaomin, don't go too far," Tang Yu said.
"What, you can't bear to part with her?"
Tang Yu shot Tang Xiaomin a glare. While Tang Yiyi was in the wrong, Tang Xiaomin's gloating was indeed a bit much.
"Yiyi, stop this, come back quickly."
As Tang Yu spoke, he moved to chase after Tang Yiyi.
Suddenly, Tang Xiaomin grabbed Tang Yu's arm tightly, preventing him from leaving.
"Xiaomin, what are you doing? Let go of me."
What was she doing? Tang Xiaomin wasn't going to hide it from him anymore.
When she had left alone, Tang Yu hadn't chased after her, nor had he tried to keep her.
Tang Xiaomin said coldly, "I forbid you from going to her!"
Tang Yu tried to pull away from Tang Xiaomin, but he found that Tang Xiaomin's slender wrists were as unyielding as iron, unmoving.
Tang Yu was puzzled. Tang Xiaomin was just a girl not yet twenty, with a gentle and frail appearance. Where did she get such strength?
"Xiaomin, Yiyi made a mistake, but you shouldn't be so excessive. Let go of me quickly, stop being so unreasonable."
Tang Xiaomin was determined. If she had to die today, she absolutely would not let Tang Yu go find Tang Yiyi.
"I won't let go."
The two stood locked in a stalemate. Tang Yu exerted all his strength but couldn't break free from Tang Xiaomin's grip.
Tang Yiyi had already disappeared. Tang Yu said angrily, "Yiyi is gone. She's out there alone, what if something happens to her? Let me go, I need to find her."
Tang Xiaomin suddenly released Tang Yu.
As Tang Yu turned, Tang Xiaomin suddenly said.
"Tang Yiyi is nineteen years old, a grown woman. You're worried about her being out alone and something happening."
"When I was abandoned by this family, I was just a newborn infant. Who cared about my life or death?"
Tang Yu's heart felt like it had been struck by something heavy.
He froze in place.
As the eldest son of the family, he knew what had happened after Tang Xiaomin was born.
At the time, his parents had said she was a jinx, a bringer of ill fortune, and that she would harm their family's luck.
His mother had nearly died from postpartum bleeding and had never gotten over it, so she cruelly abandoned Tang Xiaomin.
An infant, discarded.
It was truly a miracle she had survived.
Tang Yu said, "Xiaomin, that's all in the past. Since you're back now, it means you've let go of those grudges. Let's live together harmoniously as a family. Don't make trouble anymore."
Those words were spoken so easily.
It was as if Tang Xiaomin's life was as light as a feather in their eyes, something they could discard or abandon at will.
"Yes, in your eyes, Tang Yiyi's life has value, but what does my life count for?"
Tang Xiaomin no longer held Tang Yu back and walked back into the Tang house without looking back.
What meaning was there in someone who could only be kept by brute force?
Ten o'clock in the evening.
Tang Yiyi had not returned.
The family sat on the sofa anxiously, restless.
Zhang Meiyu said, "Husband, should we call the police? I'm really worried something might happen to Yiyi."
Tang Xiaomin said coldly, "Heh... it hasn't been twenty-four hours yet, the police won't do anything."
"Tang Xiaomin, how can you be so wicked? You've always disliked Yiyi, you wish something would happen to her, don't you?" Zhang Meiyu scolded.
"Heh," Tang Xiaomin let out a scoff of mockery.
"And what about you all? Did you wish something would happen to me?"
These words were thought-provoking.
Words spoken could deceive others, but not oneself.
Especially Zhang Meiyu and Tang Zhongcheng. Ever since the Ye family had sent the betrothal gifts to Tang Xiaomin, they had wished for something to happen to her every day, so they could give the marriage to Tang Yiyi.
Tang Zhongcheng said helplessly, "Yiyi isn't a child anymore. Running away from home out of temper is wrong. She has many close friends, she should be fine."
Tang Xiaomin, a problematic girl, was already enough of a bother. Tang Yiyi was now causing trouble, and Tang Zhongcheng was truly fed up.
Coupled with the incident of hiding medicine before, Tang Zhongcheng decided not to bother anymore.
With Tang Zhongcheng's decree, Zhang Meiyu naturally didn't dare to say anything more.
As for Tang Yu, he was tired after searching all day.
No one in the family mentioned Tang Yiyi's name anymore.
In fact, Tang Yiyi hadn't gone far. She had hidden in the greenery near the villa, evading Tang Yu's search.
She just wanted to see if her parents and brother would search for her everywhere after she ran away from home.
She saw her parents and brother returning home one after another, and then the house fell silent.
By eleven o'clock, she noticed that the lights in her parents' and brother's rooms were turning off one by one.
Her running away from home had not caused any ripples.
It was as if she had suddenly become a dispensable person.
Or perhaps, someone who had been abandoned.
Tang Yiyi cried, crying in despair.
Although she was unwilling to believe this fact, reality was laid out before her, leaving her no choice but to believe it.
Tang Xiaomin had returned, and she was trying to snatch everything that belonged to her.
No!
That everything had originally belonged to her, and she absolutely would not allow Tang Xiaomin to take it, absolutely not.
Tang Yiyi mustered her courage, wiped away her tears, and walked back home on her own.
She pushed the door with force, but it was already locked from the inside.
Tang Yiyi pressed the doorbell, but after pressing it for a long time, no one came to open it for her.
In desperation, Tang Yiyi could only shout from downstairs.
"Dad, Mom, open the door for me."
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"Dad, Mom."
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"Aunt Xue."
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"Big Brother."
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At this moment, Tang Xiaomin sat by the window, swinging her legs, drinking red wine, and leisurely listening to Tang Yiyi's cries from downstairs, a smile on her lips.
In the night, a black mist shrouded the Tang family villa, muffling Tang Yiyi's voice from downstairs.